Open Lab Athens is a non-for-profit, cross-disciplinary research collective and technology development lab.

Self-organization and Solidarity

Cooperativism and Infrastructuring

Service innovation and Municipalism

Urbanism and Housing

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Projects and community engagements

Kourion2030 | Co-designing a long-term cultural strategy

From April 2024, OLA Team collaborates with the organization KOURION2030 – Candidate City for the European Capital of Culture, in order to…
CORPUS – Phygital models of cooperation in the retrofitting of public space

Community reclaiming of the city through the lens of participation and circularity Co.R.Pu.S. aims to conduct research on alternative processes of retrofitting…
Tech Talk Workshops

Navigating Technosocial Challenges Together – A platform for discussion and exchange of ideas TechTalk project by Sociality Cooperative aims to popularize and…
Co-designing with Energy communities

Digital Platform Co-design In November 2021, OLA had the opportunity to get involved in the development of a digital platform for the…
The Glass Room _ Misinformation Edition

The “Glass Room Misinformation Edition” exhibition was presented in Greece between 21-27 of November 2022 in the National Library of Greece in…
Kalotrofa | Food Sovereignty and Sustainability Hub

Kalotrofa is a research program about Food sovereignty and the diffusion of Social and Solidarity Economy, coordinated by the Department of Social…

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Encounters
Online Learning and Solidarity: A demanding brain-teaser

An article from Vasilis Vlachokyriakos and Christos Yovanopoulos, about the challenges posed to Solidarity Schools because of pandemic and how they responded to the condition of combining distance learning and solidarity, has been published in the daily greek newspaper “Efimerida ton Syntakton”. The article presents the difficulties and the problematics which education faced during lockdowns, […]

by Open Lab Athens • 10 November 2021
Systems
Developing a board game about empty buildings, community infrastructures and the dialogue between stakeholders

In the context of the European H2020 project CO3 the research team of Open Lab Athens develops a board role-playing game about empty buildings, community infrastructure and the dialogue between different stakeholders in a city. Our basic goal through this procedure is to support a pilot deployment of an application and service which provides citizens […]

by Open Lab Athens • 1 June 2021
Systems
UX Research to Improve IRIS SMS

Professor Maria Rousou and researcher dr.Katerina El Raheb from the Informatics department of the University of Athens have undertaken in cooperation with Open Lab Athens UX research to improve Iris SMS system trough interviews, focus groups and workshops.

by Open Lab Athens • 28 May 2020